Oppressive atmosphere and Spencer Mansion
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The atmosphere is incredible, I love the aesthetics of the mansion and enemy designs.”
Steam review · 44.5 h played ↗
Resident Evil
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Very Positive · 92%Very Positive · 92%CAPCOM Co., Ltd.2015Survival Horror · Horror · Puzzle
The verdict
A faithful, atmospheric survival-horror remake with great puzzles and replay value, but clunky tank controls, fixed cameras, door animations and inventory juggling will repel players used to modern games.
Great for
Fans of old-school survival horror, puzzles, resource management and replaying for speedruns and challenges
Main risk
Fixed camera, tank controls, door animations and tiny inventory feel dated and tedious if you're used to modern games
What players love
Clever puzzles and exploration
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“What I loved most was that it's basically a puzzle game disguised as action-horror”
Steam review · 35.8 h played ↗
Fixed camera and tank controls become charming
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The fixed camera angel adds to the horror of being helpless to the jumpscares”
Steam review · 48.5 h played ↗
Gorgeous pre-rendered visuals and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“Thanks to the prerendered backgrounds this game will never age or look uncanny valley.”
Steam review · 40.8 h played ↗
Tense resource management and survival
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“the horror comes from the atmosphere and your lack of resources, not cheap tricks like jumpscares”
Steam review · 20.6 h played ↗
Huge replay value and extra modes
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“I ended up finishing the game seven times, just playing at my own pace and completing the remaining achievements.”
Steam review · 69.3 h played ↗
What players complain about
Awkward fixed camera and clunky controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Fixed cam + tank controls is the worst combination on earth.”
Steam review · 15.7 h played ↗
Dated design; feels like it needs a remake
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Without the lens of nostalgia, the gameplay is quite antiquated and honestly hard to enjoy.”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗
Crashes, black screen and resolution/port issues
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Basically every time i try and load into the game from a old save or even starting a fresh new game it crashes OCCASIONALLY.”
Steam review · 14.9 h played ↗
Door animations and loading every room
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Running around this giant house takes forever, since every time you go from room to room you need to watch a 6 second door opening animation”
Steam review · 42.6 h played ↗
Tiny inventory and constant backtracking
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“You can't even get rid of items yourself and you have very limited spaces and cannot upgrade whatsoever.”
Steam review · 3 h played ↗
Obscure puzzles and unclear objectives
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“almost no leads on next objective except to basically blind search the mansion is tedious”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support20 GB
Minimum
OSWindows®10
ProcessorIntel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, AMD Athlon™ X2 2.8 GHz, or better
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX260, ATI Radeon HD 6790, or better
Storage20 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows®10 / Windows®11
ProcessorIntel® Core™ 2 Quad 2.7 GHz, AMD Phenom™ II X4 3.0 GHz or better / 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900 @ 2.50GHz (16 CPUs), ~2.5GHz,AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor (16 CPUs), ~3.7GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560, ATI Radeon HD 6950, or betterMonitor Resolution: 1280×720 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER,AMD Radeon RX 6800
Storage20 GB available space
OSWindows®10
ProcessorIntel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, AMD Athlon™ X2 2.8 GHz, or better
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX260, ATI Radeon HD 6790, or better
Storage20 GB available space
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